Science & Healthcare

Acute cholecystitis (OС) occupies one of the leading places in the frequency of occurrence in emergency surgery in elderly and senile patients. And there is no unambiguous proposal for diagnosing, treating and preventing the development of all sorts of complications in this age group.

This article presents data from various literature sources that reflect the clinical role of venous pressure.

Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) present a new drug threat emerged on the world stage in the middle 2000s. An increasing number of literature data demonstrate the harmful nature of this class of psychoactive substances.

The study of polymorphisms of genes responsible for the development of arterial hypertension is a promising direction of medicine. Hypertension is a multifactorial disease that depends on lifestyle, environment and nutrition, as well as polymorphisms of genes. Polymorphisms of the genes of the renin - angiotensin - aldosterone system play an important role in the pathogenesis of hypertension.

This article is devoted to a review of the literature of thyroid gland tumors, which are the most frequent endocrine pathology. Palpable nodes of thyroid gland could be with frequency of about 5% in women and 1% in men. Such kind of tumors mainly are discovered by ultrasound investigation in 70% of randomly selected people, with higher frequencies in women and the elderly. Now many studies are carried out.